IT Governance Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Information Technology Governance
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring IT Governance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 - 123
Rank change year-on-year - - +48
Contract jobs citing IT Governance 5 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.23% - 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% - 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile - - £520
25th Percentile - - £597
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £749
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.26%
75th Percentile £541 - £774
90th Percentile £616 - £775
Central London median daily rate £500 - £749
% change year-on-year - - +30.26%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

IT Governance falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,886 1,592 2,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.19% 92.13% 89.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,301 1,024 1,456
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £573
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.44% -4.58%
75th Percentile £673 £680 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 9 11
10th Percentile - £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £30.03 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.12% +24.00% -45.65%
75th Percentile £48.67 £34.68 £40.92
90th Percentile £57.93 £51.75 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £31.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -15.77% +11.47% -20.54%

IT Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IT Governance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

IT Governance job vacancy trend in the City of London

IT Governance
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing IT Governance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing IT Governance

IT Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Governance in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for IT Governance in the City of London

IT Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

General
1 5 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) IT Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) SOX Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Business Architect
2 1 (20.00%) IT Risk Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Attestation
2 3 (60.00%) Change Management
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) IT Audit
3 2 (40.00%) Validation
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Data Security
4 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) ERP
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
4 1 (20.00%) Project Management
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
4 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) CISA
1 3 (60.00%) CISSP
1 3 (60.00%) CRISC
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (20.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) COBIT
1 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (60.00%) ITGC
1 3 (60.00%) NIST
1 3 (60.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (20.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) SAP